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A.P.U.S.H
apush study guide chapter 7.5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Edgar allen poe | short story writer, poet, and critic |
| Ralph waldo Emerson | philosopher and poet. he became associated with German idealism. he evolved the concept of transcendentalism |
| Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | mexican general and political leader he controlled maxico as its leader |
| Henry Clay | U.S. Polotician, statesman, and orator. ran for president a few times. |
| john Tyler | 10nth president of the U.S. he was a whig and a congressman |
| James K. Polk | the 11th president of the U.S. did well in foreign policy. he was the last strong pre-civil war president. |
| Gen. Zachary Taylor | the 12th president of the united states.he was a general in the Mexican-american war. he wanted people to settle the west to make them free states |
| John C. Fremont | military governor of california. opposed slavery. acquired California during the Mexican war. |
| James Buchanan | was the 15th president. leaned towards pro-slavery side. |
| Fredrick douglass | a black abolitionist that was born into slavery, who did the fourth of july speech. |
| joseph smith | founder of the latter day saints regime.(mormans) |
| Charles Sumner | politician. leader of the anti-slavery movements in Massachusetts. good at foreign affairs and was friends with Lincoln. |
| Brigham Young | U.S. Morman leader who led mormans westward to their head quarters in salt lake city. |
| Sam houston | he was a statesman, polotician, and soldier. he became the 7th governer of texas |
| john C. Calhoun | he was the 7th vice president. he was one of the three people in that group, you know. |
| Dorothea Dix | a woman actavist on behalf of the indigent insane.She created the first generatin of mental assylums. |
| Cyrus H. McCormick | an american inventor who bacame part of the international harvester company Created a new kind of reaper |
| John Deere | manufacurer who originaly manufactured steel plows |
| Horace Mann | editor and politician. was the father of education. created the board of education. |
| Harriet tubman | born as a slave but ran away. created the underground railroad. and saved around 300 slaves to the north. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | U.S. social reformer. she organised the first womens rights movement. she was president of the national womens suffrage association. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | she wrote uncle toms cabin. |
| John Brown | american abolitionist who started battles to end slavery, when he was finally caught and killed it made ihim a hereo and people made songs about him. |
| Jim lane | U.S. senator, and a union general and partisan. He was an abolitionist in kansas |
| Lyman Beecher | a presbetairan minister sister of harriet beecher stowe who was part of the temperance movement. he gave people guns to fight in the civil war. The guns were called Beecher bible. |
| William Seward | Civil war brigadier general |
| Roger B. Taney | Cheif justice of the U.S.. In the dred scott decision he made sure the case was quick. |
| John C. Breckenridge | An american lawyer and polotician. He supported slaves. he ran for president and lost. he joined the confederate army. |
| Jefferson Davis | American military officer and the leader of the confederacy. |
| Gen. Ulysses S. Grant | part of the Mexican-American war, but later became the Union army general that won the war. |
| Gen. Robert E. Lee | Part of the Mexican-American war. Later became the Confederate army general. |
| Gen. George McClellan | Was a major general during the civil war. Got fired by Lincoln a few times. |
| Gen. Winfield Scott | U.S army general during the Mexican-American war, and unsucessful presidential candadite |
| Copperheads | A person in the north, who sides with the southand is a spy for them |
| Abraham Lincoln | President during the civil war who didn't free any slaves, but is thought to be one of our best presidents. |
| Stephan A. Douglass | presidential candadate during linoln's run for president. |
| "stonewall" Jackson | A confederate general during the civil war, second most important to robert e. lee |
| Know-Nothings | also known as the American party, thought to be hostile towards the american values |
| abolitionists | a person who favored the end of the practice of slavery. |
| Doughfaces | a person who lives in the north, but favors the south. |
| fire-eaters | a person who lives in the south and is extremly into slavery and would give their lives to keep slavery. |
| Border ruffians | people who lived in Kansas and wanted it to be a slave state |
| Jayhawkers | people in kansas who were militant abolitions movement. |
| shakers, Oneidas | It is a religion created by native american people |
| Mormons | people of the church of latter day saints.went to salt lake city to start a Mormon colony. |
| Second great awakening | people thought the world was ending so they had to fix up the world and slavery was dirty so they wanted to get rid of it |
| Sumner/brooks affair | Brooks beat the living daylights out of sumner because of what sumner said about the south. |
| Election of 1860 | Lincoln against Breckinridge. Lincoln won and started his first term as president |
| Population explosion | there was a potatoe famine in ireland so a huge amount of irish people came to america to escape the famine. |
| Seneca falls | was where one of the first womens conventions were that was very influential |
| Irish & German immigration | the Irish came to america because of the potatoe famine and the germans came because they thought they would have a better life here. |
| Gold rush | someone discovered gold in california and then everyone all over america went to california thinking they would get rich and have a better life. |
| Underground railroad | Harriet Tuban started this organization to help slaves go north to canada to be free. |
| secession of south carolina | south carolina decided to seceed from the north when the north threatened to get rid of slavery, ultimatly leading to the civil war. |
| lincoln douglas debates | were done when they were running for senate. there were seven sreas ere they did them |
| admission of california | people were worried about whether or not it would be a slave state and if it would be fair. it went against the 1850 compromise. |
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